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The Ruin We Made
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $41.99
Publisher: Nightshade Press
Published: Oct 23 2026
Pages: 604
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some loves were meant to last forever. Others were meant to burn.
Nix Zaldanna has spent years being forged into a weapon.
Now, for the first time in her life, she belongs to no one.
Alone and hunted, Nix has learned to survive without the people she once called family. But when a chance encounter puts Tadeo Aguirre back in her path, bloodied, desperate, and running from the kingdom that should have been his, walking away becomes impossible.
Tadeo is the rightful heir to AguatÃtlan. His uncle stole his crown, crushed those loyal to him, and will stop at nothing to keep the throne. Reclaiming it will take more than an army. It will take rebels, forgotten alliances, dangerous magic, and the woman Tadeo has never been able to forget.
But Nix has her own war to fight.
Malakai is gone.
The empire she was born to inherit is waiting for her.
And the truths buried inside her magic are becoming impossible to ignore.
As rebellion ignites across AguatÃtlan and old enemies close in, Nix must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice for a kingdom that was never hers, a prince who refuses to let her face the darkness alone, and the man she refuses to give up on.
Because Nix was raised to survive the fire.
She was never taught what to do when she became it.
THE RUIN WE MADE is the second book in the Ashes & Ruin Saga, a dark adult romantasy filled with dangerous magic, political rebellion, found family, morally gray characters, aching romance, and a heroine discovering that sometimes the only way to build something new is to burn the old world down first.
This series must be read in order. Begin with WE WERE MEANT TO BURN.
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